It’s the great next-generation DVD format war: Blu-ray or HD DVD, which will win? After the past couple of weeks, I think we all know which will be victorious, and it worries me a trifle. But I get ahead of myself.
If you’re a network geek like I am, your main interest in all this HDTV stuff concerns the fate of the old analog TV channel band. That band represents some pretty nice neighborhood. Consider: a wireless network frequency range that lets us run data and can also penetrate most house walls better than most current wireless technologies—sweet! But that’s not what I’m concerned about this month. Instead, let’s talk about DVDs.
Perhaps it’s my aging eyes or, more likely, the quality of content on most DVDs, but I admit that I’ve never really felt a burning desire for higher-resolution video DVDs. (Now, bigger data DVDs is another desire altogether—25GB on a little optical disk? Yes! Finally I’d be able to archive my photo collection with fewer than a thousand disks!) Besides, I’m not about to forget my purchase of a 42” plasma monitor a few years ago so that I could watch DVDs in higher resolution. I popped Galaxy Quest into my DVD player with feverish hands and, well, I can’t say I was all that impressed, even with my glasses on. . . .
Orindlt January 28, 2008 (Article Rating: